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Weaponizing Pagers Violates International Law and May Be a War Crime, UN Rights Chief Says
PJ Media ^ | 09/21/2024 | Rick Moran

Posted on 09/21/2024 6:54:26 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

It's just not fair, I tell you. Israel manufacturing pagers ordered by terrorists loaded with explosives is not fighting fair. They shouldn't have disguised the explosive. They should have warned the terrorists. 

Volker Türk, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, claims that the pager attacks using Hezbollah electronics not only "violated international human rights law" but also appear to violate international humanitarian law’s key principles in carrying out attacks: "distinction between civilians and combatants, proportionality, and precautions."

As I said, Israel is not playing fair. They should have let Hezbollah blow up 3,700 Israelis to achieve the "proportionality" test of UN human rights law.

“Let me be clear — this method of warfare may be new and unfamiliar,” Türk said, “but international humanitarian and human rights law apply regardless and must be upheld.”

That international law never applies to terrorists is self-evident. Israel's response to such nonsense? How do you say "buzz off" in Yiddish?

Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Abdallah Bouhabib accused Israel of terrorizing Lebanon's entire population at the Security Council meeting. “Look at the ugliness of what has happened in this picture," said Bouhaib. He was holding a photo of a mangled hand. Since the overwhelming majority of the pagers were handed out to Hezbollah terrorists, it's a shame the other hand couldn't have been blown off too.

Associated Press:

Bouhabib insisted that Israel not only launched the attacks but told the council there were “official declarations” and a tweet by an adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “that was lately deleted, emphasizing the responsibility of Israel and praising the positive results of this assault.”

He appeared to be referring to a deleted tweet by Netanyahu adviser Topaz Luke,


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1 posted on 09/21/2024 6:54:26 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

The UN is a war crime.


2 posted on 09/21/2024 6:55:47 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: SeekAndFind

hey UN, go scratch.


3 posted on 09/21/2024 6:56:39 PM PDT by MrHead
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Not the Bee?


4 posted on 09/21/2024 6:56:53 PM PDT by aspasia
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To: SeekAndFind

Hey Volker, call on line #1 for you.


5 posted on 09/21/2024 6:57:54 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: SeekAndFind
The Godless Globalist United Nations awaits their Antichrist - Mark my words (pun sorta intended)

The Godless Globalists WILL get Satan's Antichrist, who "confirms" 7 years of 'Peace and Security'. You can count on it. It has been foretold long, long ago. It is on the horizon.





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6 posted on 09/21/2024 6:58:26 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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“If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.”


7 posted on 09/21/2024 6:58:41 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The “UN Rights Jerk” can go suck on a douche bag.


8 posted on 09/21/2024 6:59:21 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If the DNC would spay and neuter their supporters we wouldn't need all these abortions.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Check your messages U.N. boy.


9 posted on 09/21/2024 6:59:26 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (DemocRATS have always been the Jackass party, now they are also the Hamas(s) party.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I AM PRETTY SURE THAT F U IS THE SAME IN EVERY LANGUAGE


10 posted on 09/21/2024 7:00:34 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: SeekAndFind

Weaponizing the alphabet is a war crime, too!


11 posted on 09/21/2024 7:00:45 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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Weaponizing Pagers Violates International Law and May Be a War Crime, UN Rights Chief Says

9/21/2024, 9:54:26 PM

It would be appropriate if the Israelis decided to take him seriously and just blew him up, without explanation.

Hey, it would be in New York--so for sure it wouldn't be a war crime. It would be no big deal, happens all the time.

12 posted on 09/21/2024 7:01:11 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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ANOTHER REASON ON THE LIST OF REASONS TO KICK THE UN OUT OF THE USA.


13 posted on 09/21/2024 7:01:11 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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14 posted on 09/21/2024 7:01:13 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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“I have always felt that the Geneva Convention is a dangerous piece
of stupidity, because it leads people to believe that war can be
civilized. It can’t.”

John Tonkin, quoted in “The Boys Crusade”, Paul Fussell


15 posted on 09/21/2024 7:01:40 PM PDT by dagunk
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There should be a miniature version of him - a “mini him”


16 posted on 09/21/2024 7:02:10 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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"Weaponizing Pagers Violates International Law and May Be a War Crime, UN Rights Chief Says"

Israel did not mandate terrorists wear pagers. It's not like the covid vaccine.
17 posted on 09/21/2024 7:02:30 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s never a war crime the first time...


18 posted on 09/21/2024 7:02:37 PM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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Pretty sure this is a violation. It’s pretty indiscriminate. Lots of folks with no connection to Hezbollah had a pager.


19 posted on 09/21/2024 7:06:03 PM PDT by Owen
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To: SeekAndFind

UN officials should personally go into the streets of Hamas territory - unarmed and unescorted - and negotiate a worldwide peace treaty with Islamist radicals.


20 posted on 09/21/2024 7:06:39 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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